Where does “successeur” come from?
successeur (French) comes from Latin successor, from Latin succēdō, from Latin cēdō, from Proto-Italic kedō, from Proto-Italic ke, from Indo-European *ḱe.
successeur (French): successor
Ancestry of “successeur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | successor | follower, successor |
| 2 | Latin | succēdō | — |
| 3 | Latin | cēdō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kedō | give here! |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | ke | here |
| 6 | Indo-European | *ḱe | — |